When I die, I want to come back as me.
If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there.
The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done, following the same old trends, well, that’s just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I’m having maybe a little bit more now that I’ve got something in the bank.
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I’m selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.
I don’t care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.
Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.
Because if you’re prepared and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.
Sometimes the best properties aren’t necessarily the biggest properties.
It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.
Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.
When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can’t. So I highly recommend going to college.
Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.